Huge crowds waited for hours to cast their votes on Sunday, the final day for early in-person voting.
  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    81·
    17 days ago

    I don’t understand articles like this. I’ve never been in a place where it’s taken more than say 20 minutes to vote. The longest line was still within the air conditioned school that was my polling place. The only difficulty is spending that time staring at and smelling the bake sale to raise additional funds for the school

    How is that a four hour line is not clear evidence of interfering with an election, and get immediately addressed, potentially including firing, fines, criminal charges?

    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol
      4·
      17 days ago

      My wife had a two hour wait a couple of days ago in Ohio, in a super red county. We don’t even have democrats on the ballot for local elections. The thing is they only have one location per county for early voting and many more district locations on election day. I’ve never had a long wait on election day but a lot of people are showing up to vote early this year.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        I do wonder about that. The huge lines that make the news always seem to be in Red states where it’s important to “save money” on elections, but my experience is in blue states where they prioritize voting.

        However I have no where near wide enough experience to generalize

  • Ascrod
    4·
    17 days ago

    I voted last weekend at the local Board of Elections and it took nearly an hour. There were a ton of people, but the BOE has their process down very well. I think urban areas like these are going to be pretty busy.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 days ago

    I don’t understand articles like this. I’ve never been in a place where it’s taken more than say 20 minutes to vote. The longest line was still within the air conditioned school that was my polling place. The only difficulty is spending that time staring at and smelling the bake sale to raise additional funds for the school

    workers called it amazing to see so many people exercising their right to vote

    That’s great, but why aren’t they offended that their government made this such a hardship? Why isn’t the FEC forcing remediation including more investment if necessary? Why isn’t whoever made choices resulting in this line fired?

    How is that a four hour line is not clear evidence of interfering with an election, and get immediately addressed?